Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Initiation, Human and Solar - XIX - Rules for
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Initiation, Human and Solar - Chapter XIX - Rules for Applicants






Rule
12



Let the
disciple learn the use of the hand in service; let him seek the mark of the messenger in
his feet, and let him learn to see with the eye that looks out from between the two.


This rule
looks easy of interpretation upon the first reading, and seems to enjoin upon the
applicant the use of the hands in service, of the feet upon hierarchical errands, and the
development of clairvoyance. But the real meaning is much more esoteric. Occultly
understood, the "use of the hands" is the utilization of the chakras (or
centers)in the palms of the hands in:
Healing bodily ills.
Blessing, and thus curing emotional ills.
Raised in prayer, or the use of the centers of the hands during meditation in the
manipulation of mental matter and currents.

These three points will bear careful consideration, and much may be learnt by
occidental students from the study of the life of Christ, and a consideration of his
methods in using his hands. More cannot be said here, as the subject is too vast to be
enlarged upon in this brief commentary.
The "mark of the messenger" in the feet, is a reference to that well-known
symbol of the wings on the heels of Mercury. Much upon this subject will be revealed to
students in occult schools who will gather together all that can be found concerning the
Messenger of the Gods, and who also will study with care information which astrological
[207] students have gleaned anent the planet Mercury, and which occult students have
gathered concerning the inner round.
On the surface, the expression "the eye which looks out from between the two"
seems to signify the third eye, which clairvoyants utilize, but the meaning is very much
deeper than that, and lies hidden in the following facts:
That the inner vision is that which all self-conscious beings, from a Logos to a man,
are in process of developing.
That the Ego, or Higher Self, is literally to the Monad what the third eye is to man,
and therefore is described as looking out from between the Monad or spiritual self on the
one hand, and the personal self on the other.

In the fullest sense, therefore, this rule incites the applicant to develop
self-consciousness, and thus learn to function in the causal body on the higher levels of
the mental plane, controlling from thence all the lower vehicles and seeing clearly all
that can be seen in the three worlds, in the past and in the future.





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